Toronto IndyCar: Dixon heads all-Ganassi front row for race two

The New Zealander led his group for most of the session, and became the only driver so far this weekend to dip below the 59s mark with his 58.9686s effort, which came just as James Jakes crashed and brought out the red flags.

Dario Franchitti, who will start today's first race from pole, topped the first qualifying group with his 59.1905s and will line up alongside his team-mate on Sunday.

Helio Castroneves and Ryan Hunter-Reay will share the second row ahead of Will Power and EJ Viso.

Both Power and Sebastien Bourdais, who will start from the fourth row, could potentially have finished higher up, but Power glanced the barriers late in the second session and dragged an advertising banner off the wall.

He managed to shed it from his car, only for it to wrap itself around Bourdais' front wing instead.

Jakes's crash a moment later denied the Dragon team an opportunity to try and remove it.

Pos  Driver               Team/Engine        Time      Gap
 1.  Scott Dixon          Ganassi/Honda      58.9686s
 2.  Dario Franchitti     Ganassi/Honda      59.1905s  +0.222s
 3.  Helio Castroneves    Penske/Chevy       59.1953s  +0.226s
 4.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti/Chevy     59.3915s  +0.423s
 5.  Will Power           Penske/Chevy       59.2503s  +0.281s
 6.  Tony Kanaan          KV/Chevy           59.5360s  +0.567s
 7.  Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy       59.5421s  Group 2
 8.  Ryan Briscoe         Panther/Chevy      59.5473s  Group 1
 9.  Alex Tagliani        Herta/Honda        59.7601s  Group 2
10.  Simona de Silvestro  KV/Chevy           59.6489s  Group 1
11.  EJ Viso              Andretti/Chevy     59.7821s  Group 2
12.  James Hinchcliffe    Andretti/Chevy     59.6750s  Group 1
13.  Simon Pagenaud       Schmidt/Honda      59.8326s  Group 2
14.  Justin Wilson        Coyne/Honda        59.7113s  Group 1
15.  Takuma Sato          Foyt/Honda       1m00.0874s  Group 2
16.  Charlie Kimball      Ganassi/Honda      59.7871s  Group 1
17.  Tristan Vautier      Schmidt/Honda    1m00.3204s  Group 2
18.  Marco Andretti       Andretti/Chevy     59.8207s  Group 1
19.  Josef Newgarden      Fisher/Honda     1m00.6174s  Group 2
20.  Graham Rahal         Rahal/Honda        59.9216s  Group 1
21.  James Jakes          Rahal/Honda      1m00.7204s  Group 2
22.  Sebastian Saavedra   Dragon/Chevy     1m00.1913s  Group 1
23.  Ed Carpenter         Carpenter/Chevy  1m00.9519s  Group 2
24.  Mike Conway          Coyne/Honda      1m00.3919s  Group 1

All drivers using Dallara DW12 chassis